1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 2, 2:05 PM MST, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 305 PM MDT SUN JUN 2 2002 SCT/ISOLD TSTMS TIL ABOUT MIDNITE E OF CENTRAL MTN CHAIN. BROAD UPR LVL TROF MOVG INTO UT AZ MON FOR A BREEZY AND WARM AFTERNOON ACROSS NM WITH ISOLATED AFTN/EVE TSTMS. COULD SEE LATE DAY/EARLY NIGHTTIME DRYLINE TSTMS FAR ERN PLAINS. WILL BRING BACKDOOR COLD FRONT INTO NE NM MON NITE. COOLER TUE NRN MTNS AND MUCH MUCH COOLER NE...ALONG WITH INCREASED PRECIP CHANCES. MDT OR BETTER E WIND EVENT TUE EVE/NITE PSBL FOR THE RIO GRANDE VLY WHILE COOLER AND MORE MOIST AIR SPREADS FURTHER S AND W. SOMEWHAT BETTER CHANCES FOR AFTERNOON TSTMS WEST AND SOUTH WED. TREND IS STILL FOR RIDGE BUILDING AND FOR REWARMING THU INTO FRI. PROBABLY SOME FORM OF ZONAL FLOW NEXT WEEKEND RESULTING IN GENLY DRY CONDITIONS BUT WITH ISOLATED AFTERNOON TSTMS NRN MTNS AND ADJACENT HIGHLANDS. ABQ BB 064/092 062/089 058 07011 SAF BB 052/086 052/081 050 07111 TCC BB 065/095 063/075 052 07101 .ABQ...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A strong thunderstorm over Clovis yielded 1 to 2 inches of rain over some sections of the city, but it also produced at least 5 lightning fires that destroyed several barns and storage buildings and caused a 400 acre grassfire.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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